The Gospel by Alicia Keys

So we all got children, products of the ghetto
Momma cooked us soup, (1)__________ did the yelling
Uncle was a drunk, cousin was a felon
When he got pitched, he told (2)________ he wasn't tellin'
Auntie was a cook, her husband was a crook
Cause every job he had (3)________ be payin' him off the books
Ghetto university, knowledge is all it took
In a tenement I was listenin' to the hook
Change gon' come, the spirit of Sam Cook
When the feds comin', everybody get shook
Now we doin' life like Eddie Murphy and Martin
On the chain gang, I was (4)______________ into the coffin

The (5)______________ and the rats, heroin and the cracks
Couldn't blame me, I'm just giving the facts
Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't (6)__________ it's at
Everybody got a past but you can never go back

Sing
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah)...

Tellin' you like it is, how we ever gon' live?
If we ain't gettin' money, how we feedin' the kids?
It's a revolving door, where (7)________________ be doin' bids
I (8)________ it sound (9)__________ but the door will be what it is
Survival of the fittest, (10)________ (11)________ girl the illest
Broke parents and (12)__________ cats give me heebie-geebies
Life (13)__________ hard but nothin' ever (14)__________ easy
Whatever's in the dark, can always (15)____________ the light
If you ain't in a battle, how you gon' win the fight?
Gotta (16)__________ the truth (17)________ I'm up in the booth
The streets be flyin' (18)__________ but they don't be on the roof
Poverty is a (19)________ like you pullin' a tooth
Told the (20)______________ don't let me go like I'm Bishop in Juice

The roaches and the rats, heroin and the cracks
Couldn't blame me, I'm just giving the facts
Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't where it's at
Everybody got a past but you can never go back

Sing
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah)

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